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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'We're getting soft': Kentucky governor says America is weak for closing schools
Hundreds of public schools and several large universities from North Dakota to Pennsylvania canceled classes on Tuesday and Wednesday due to the dangerous temperatures.
Bevin, in an interview with NewsRadio 840 WHAS , said America was weak because of it.
'Now we cancel school for cold?' he told host Terry Meiners on Tuesday.
'It's deep freeze,' the host replied. 'This is serious business.'
Bevin hit back: 'Come on, now. I mean, there's no ice going with it, or any snow.
'I mean, what happens to America? We're getting soft.'
The governor added that he did 'appreciate that it's better to err on the side of being safe' and admitted that his comments were 'slightly facetious'.
He then doubled down, saying: 'It does concern me a little bit that in America, on this and many other fronts, that we're sending messages to our young people that if life is hard you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard... that just isn't reality.'
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/were-getting-soft-kentucky-governor-says-america-is-weak-for-closing-schools-as-a-deadly-arctic-deep-freeze-wreaks-havoc-with-record-breaking-low-temperatures/ar-BBSXzv2?li=BBnb7Kz
Wow, how very Christian of him!
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)He has a nice warm house, warm food, what a moron, just like the moron in chief.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Fuck him.
Initech
(100,104 posts)What a fucking asshole!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Little kids waiting outside in sub-zero temps for school buses that are delayed or never arrive, and becoming frost bitten within 5 minutes.
Teachers who cant start their cars to get to school, leaving classrooms of kids abandoned.
Urban kids whose public transportation options may involve long delays, where they are left stranded for prolonged times outside on El platforms or at bus stops with 50 below wind chills.
Possibilities of broken boilers or frozen pipes creating crises for students and teachers.
Huge financial liabilities for schools.
Were not talking its cold outside, I dont wanna go out. Were talking potentially life-threatening danger.
janterry
(4,429 posts)schools in other states?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,430 posts)Bevin doesn't care about anything except himself and party power. He'd happily allow your children to suffer frostbite or loss of limbs if it gained him a few votes.
https://www.ballotpedia.org/Kentucky_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2019
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,965 posts)This guy can go fuck himself.
DavidDvorkin
(19,486 posts)standingtall
(2,787 posts)have central air growing up in the 70's.
LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)Shaddox
(384 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,212 posts)For that horseshit he should be made to stand outside for an hour or two in the cold.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Is there a strong Dem set to take him on?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)that state that they keep electing some of the cruelest, worst politicians in the nation? There are just too many hateful people in that state who support the worst of the worst.